West Africa WC2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Larges Continent | Africa | ||||
| 3x the size of the United States | Mali | ||||
| how many nations | 54 | ||||
| list the 5 regions | west africa, central africa, north africa, east africa, and southern Africa | ||||
| Native Africans are known for their what? | Land | ||||
| Most of the land is? | Plateau | ||||
| temperatures are generally? | warm or hot | ||||
| Most Africans are what? | farmers or herders | ||||
| Languages are divided into what? | families | ||||
| There are over how many languages spoken in Africa? | 1,000 | ||||
| Percentage that is Tropics? | 80% | ||||
| Escarpement | steep cliffs | ||||
| cataracts | large waterfalls and rapids | ||||
| hydroelectric power | energy produced by moving water | ||||
| tropics | the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn | ||||
| leaching | heavy rain dissolve and wash away it's nutrients | ||||
| drought | prolonged periods of little or no rainfall | ||||
| desertification | the turning of semidesert land into desert | ||||
| pharaohs | rulers of ancient Egypt | ||||
| hieroglyphics | Egyptians form of writing | ||||
| plateaus | lies on different elevations | ||||
| great Rift Vally | eastern part, runs to the red sea | ||||
| Sahara | desert, largest | ||||
| pula | means "rain" | ||||
| Why is European languages spoken in Africa? | Because of colonial ties | ||||
| Hatshepsut | Was the ruler of ancient Egypt | ||||
| Olduvai Gorge is on the? | edge of the Great Rift Valley | ||||
| Was the earliest civilization in Afica | Nile Valley | ||||
| Polytheistic | Egyptians religion | ||||
| Achievements of the ancient Egyptians include? | the shaduf, hieroglyphics, a calendar, medical procedures, bronze, ect | ||||
| Chrisianity and Islam influenced? | North Africa | ||||
| Porto-Novo | Benin | ||||
| Nouakchott | Mauritania | ||||
| Yamoussoukro | Cote D'lvoire (Ivory Coast) | ||||
| Accra | Ghana | ||||
| Lome | Togo | ||||
| Abuja | Nigeria | ||||
| Niamey | Niger | ||||
| Dakar | Senegal | ||||
| Banjul | Gambia | ||||
| Bissau | Guinea-bussau | ||||
| Conakry | Guinea | ||||
| Freetown | Sierra Leone | ||||
| Munrovia | Liberia | ||||
| Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | ||||
| Praia | Cape Verde | ||||
| Bamako | Mali |
Embed Code: If you would like this activity on your web page,
copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
show me how
Created by:
Stephenie
on 2011-03-04